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Intakes and sources of a range of dietary sugars in various Australian populations
Author(s) -
Baghurst Katrine I.,
Record Sally J.,
Syrette Julie A.,
Crawford David A.,
Baghurst Peter A.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1989.tb128498.x
Subject(s) - consumption (sociology) , population , environmental health , geography , scale (ratio) , australian population , demography , agricultural economics , medicine , economics , social science , cartography , sociology
Data from the Apparent Consumption of Foodstuffs publicationsof the Australian Bureau of Statistics have, until recently, been the major source of information in Australia about the consumption of refined sugars. This database, which relies on national figures for production, importation, export, storage and stocks, and on population statistics, had indicated that some 14% of the total energy that was available in Australia was derived from refined sugars. Similar figures have been derived for both the United States and United Kingdom by means of this kind of national food‐availability database. However, a recent reanalysis of a large‐scale dietary survey of individuals in the United States has indicated a much lower level of consumption of refined sugars. In recent years, several large‐scale surveys of individuals' consumption patterns in the Australian population have been carried out by the Social Nutrition Program at the CSIRO Division of Human Nutrition. These surveys indicate that the mean level of consumption of refined sugars is not as high as that which previously was estimated from Apparent Consumption data. However, there was a wide range of intakes and a substantial proportion of individuals with intakes that were above recommended levels.